Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Miners definitely need a combat dedicated barge to keep the Suicides at bay. Suicides are gankers.

The Combat Barge would come with a built in Asteroid Probe Scanner that would be accessible from the Scanner HUD. The Asteroid Scanner would require an additional skill to use it where the returned scan results, the composition of the asteroid, ice or gas cloud would be increased by 20% per level of the skill learned.

The On Board Probe Scanner Skill would not be required to pilot the ship however.

The Combat Barge would come in three hull sizes.

Small Combat Barge - Four high slots ( 1 strip mining laser or four mining lasers, one strip mining lasers and three medium sized mounted weapons.)

Four medium slots and three low slots + three rig slots 25 m/3 drone hold, 8,000 m/3 ore hold and 150 m/3 cargo hold
Base shield HP - 3500, Armor 1500, hull - who cares once your into hull your done.

Medium Combat Barge - Six high slots ( 2 strip mining lasers or six mining lasers, two 2 strip mining lasers and four medium sized mounted weapons.)

Three Medium slots and three low slots + three rig slots 25 m/3 drone hold, 15,000 m/3 ore hold and 100 m/3 cargo hold
Base shield HP - 2500, Armor 1000, hull - who cares once your into hull your done.

Large Combat Barge - Seven high slots ( 3 strip mining lasers or seven strip mining lasers, three strip mining lasers and four medium sized mounted weapons.)

Two medium slots and two low slots + two rig slots and 75 m/3 drone hold, 20,000 m/3 ore hold and 50 m/3 cargo hold
Base shield HP - 4500, Armor 1000, hull - who cares once your into hull your done.

Ship bonuses per level:

Small Combat Barge : 5% effective scanning range of the onboard scanner, 2% combat drones damage, 2% mining drone yield and 2% Shield Resistance and 5% ore cargo hold volume expansion

Medium Combat Barge : 5% effective scanning range of the onboard scanner, 3% combat drones damage, 3% mining drone yield and 3% Shield Resistance, 2% fitted weapon damage and 3% ore hold volume expansion

Medium Combat Barge : 5% combat drones damage, 5% mining drone yield and 5% Shield Resistance, 5% fitted weapon damage and 5% ore hold volume expansion

*sigh*

Dryson. What are you doing? Do you even know? Does anyone know?

not gonna comment on the idea itself, but what you are suggesting right now is tiers, which we are trying to get rid of.

Change is always good for the industry because it provides new advantages for the young. Only the old hate changes because it means they have to learn something new.

We also have to look at creating a new benefit for young pilots to aspire towards while we talk about the "good old days" so the young can then say "we are the young and we have a new job to do."

Part of being grown up whether a parent or not is to make certain that the young always have advantages or paths to advantages that we never did.

This is a silly idea.

If a proposed 'combat miner' is more effective as a miner than a dedicated noncombat miner, than it's overpowered. If not, than the bulk of miners will disregard it in favor of optimal isk/hour (and will continue to be ganked occasionally for their troubles).

Now, it'd be interesting if some of the barges got a few extra hislots for fitting weapons, but if those slots are extra turret slots, they'll probably be filled with extra mining lasers, negating the point of the exercise. Some people just don't learn.

Isnt it called a procurer :p